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Over the past two years, 27-year-oldÂ Rooney MaraÂ has emerged as one of the most talked about and talentedâif intriguingly complicated and enigmaticâyoung actresses of her generation. In fact, Mara’s ability to convey a range of often competing emotions without going over the topâused to such great effect in her Oscar-nominated performance as the determined-but-damaged hacker Lisbeth Salander inÂ The Girl with the Dragon Tattooâis party of what makes her so irresistibly watchable. But what’s she really like? On the eve of his retirement from feature-filmmaking, Steven Soderbergh, who directed Mara in the new psychological thrillerÂ Side Effects, graciously agreed to illuminate for us the completely unadulterated, absolutely unembellished, thoroughly unvarnished truth. Here, we present a Mara in full.

STEVEN SODERBERGH: Did you think you were Little Miss Hot Shit in college, or did that come later?

ROONEY MARA: When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasnât really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you. But I didnât know the people who called me Keds. I think that they didnât like me because I didnât want to join a sorority. I left that school.

SODERBERGH: Sounds like you would have been asked to leave if you hadnât left on your own, especially since you think that all sororities should be abolished. Your background is boring me, so letâs get to the movie stuff. When you were working with [David]Â FincherÂ onÂ The Girl With the Dragon TattooÂ [2011], why did he have to do so many takes of all your scenes?

MARA: Har, har . . . Because I am such a pleasure to be around, Fincher would prolong my scenes so that I would be on set all of the time. And maybe because I am stubborn, I thought that I could out-stubborn him. But you canât out-stubborn a Finch. He was always right, though. Not everyone can make films with âless than one take,â like you.

SODERBERGH: So do you really have any tattoos? Or was that acting?

MARA: I donât have any. That was acting.

SODERBERGH: And are you an expert hacker? Or was that acting, too?

MARA: That was also acting. Unfortunately.

SODERBERGH: So why didnât you win the Oscar?

MARA: Lots of reasons . . . I know how much you love your Oscar. My dogâs name is Oskar.

SODERBERGH: As an Oscar-winner, I find that incredibly insulting. By the way, do you know that your dog hates the way you smell?

MARA: Heâs sleeping next to me right this very moment. He loves everything about me, bless his little heart.

SODERBERGH: In our movie,Â Side Effects, you were asked to play a woman who is struggling with clinical depressionâamongst other things. I must note for the record that, as your director, I did not see you do any preparation for this role. Do you wing it all the time, or were you just trying to fuck up this movie specifically?

MARA: Clearly, on the eve of your retirement, you stopped paying attention to everything. When I do a film, I follow the director. And because you wing everythingâlike this interviewâI decided that thatâs the way I should work as well.

SODERBERGH: I think we both know how much I prepared for this interview. But just to give theÂ InterviewÂ readers a little bit of insight . . . For the first week of shooting, I told you to do the opposite of what I wanted you to do, because I knew that you would do the opposite of what I asked. Then you stopped doing that, so I started asking you to do what I wanted, which you did for a while, and then I went back to asking for the opposite, and then, after about day nine, I was so medicated that Iâm not sure what happened. Tell me about that.

MARA: If you hadnât lost your ability to read people, you would have known that at first I was doing whatever you askedâand then slowly, bitterly, I started doing the opposite.

SODERBERGH: Glad it was a short shoot. By the way, you wanted your fee onÂ Side EffectsÂ to be paid to you in small, unmarked bills. Whatâs up with that?

Rooney Mara tells director Steven Soderbergh just how much she trusted him while filming âSide Effectsâ in the new Interview magazine.

âI just do what Iâm told, when Iâm told,â she says. âThere is a line, though â like when you asked me to do reverse cowgirl with Channing (Tatum, who plays Maraâs husband in âSide Effectsâ), and I put my foot down. If the character should be nude in the scene and it makes sense and I trust the person making the film â and I regret my decision to trust you now that I know you more â then I donât see a problem with it. I certainly donât want to be involved in anything that is gratuitous, but I donât think the human body is something to be ashamed of. Â

âEvery other person on the planet has the same parts as I do. So seeing them shouldnât be a huge shock to most people,â she says.

âFirst of all, reverse cowgirl occupies a very important position in porn â pun intended,â jokes Soderbergh. âPlus, you told me that you couldnât stand to look at Channing, so I was just trying to solve a problem.â

âYou would know,â she says âIf I recall, Channing didnât want to look at me.â

She also tells Soderbergh that she wonders about how a movie would be completed if she were to die part way through filming.

âSometimes I think about that â like, âOkay, if I died right now, would they have to reshoot the whole film? Or would they be able to edit around it,â says the former âGirl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

âThen I think through the scenes that are left to shoot, and weigh if they would be able to finish it or not.â

And growing up in the Mara house meant watching your mouth with bad words.

âWhen I was growing up,â she says, âI wasnât allowed to say âfart.â Fart was a swear word. We had to say âhonkâ instead â âHe honked!â A penis was a âwinky.â But these days, I like words with a little more punch.â

Earlier in the year she worked with the antic Spike Jonze on the science-fiction romanceÂ Her,and with writer-director David Lowery on the independentÂ Ainât Them Bodies Saints,Â a love story set in the seventies in the hills of Texas. Meanwhile, her fourth project of 2012, Steven Soderberghâs suspenseful thrillerÂ Side Effects,Â is released this month.a

âItâs been very strange, jumping from one character to the next,â says the chameleon Mara. âAll four of them were very intense experiences. . . . I really feel sometimes like those things are happening to me. Obviously theyâre not. But itâs hard going from one to the next.

âAnd Iâm hypercritical of myself,â she adds in a masterpiece of understatement. âAnytime I see anything Iâve done, I wish that it had gone differently because you figure it out as you go along, and youâre always discovering new things. Iâd probably feel that way about anything that I did.â

She couldnât bear to see herself on-screen inÂ Dragon TattooÂ and famously resisted until she went to a theater near Manhattanâs Union Square and bought a ticket with the general public. âI really wanted to go alone,â she says, but her boyfriend, writer-director Charlie McDowell (the son of actors Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen), insisted on accompanying her. âHe was wise to come with me because if anyone had recognized me, I would have been so embarrassed.â • Read full story »

I’ve added new magazine scans of Rooney Mara on the cover of “Total DVD” Russia for “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”! Thanks to our lovely members, Pollard & Kev from our Rooney Forum :)! You guys are the best!

I’ve added new scans of Rooney Mara covers ‘Entertainment Weekly’ January 8 issue to the gallery. Rooney was posing as Lisabeth, a character from ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ movie. A huge thanks to Maria for sending them in <3! You are the best!